Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Rigoberto Gonzalez

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Rigoberto Gonzalez.

Last updated on April 20, 2025.

Rigoberto González is an American writer and book critic. He is an editor and author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and bilingual children's books, and self-identifies in his writing as a gay Chicano. His most recent project is Abuela in Shadow, Abuela in Light, a literary memoir. His previous memoir What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. He is the 2015 recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle, and the 2020 recipient of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.

American - Writer | Born: July 18, 1970

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I tend to overuse the word "project" only because "book" is terrifying while I'm still in the middle of something. A project can fail. I don't want a book to fail.

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I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

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Revision is a good impulse to have.

Rigoberto Gonzalez

Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous poets to the part-time English teachers), and its expansive indigenous landscape, as well as he does. Mason's poetry is humorous when he wants to be quirky, heartbreaking when he wants to be eloquent, and though he moves effortlessly into other moods and geographies, he always returns to his first and most enduring love (and to what he knows best)-his homeland.

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I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free.

Rigoberto Gonzalez

I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.

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Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material.

Rigoberto Gonzalez

One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time.

Rigoberto Gonzalez

Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.

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I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.

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I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home.

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I enjoy working on a number of projects - books - at once.

Rigoberto Gonzalez

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

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